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Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 15m

“Brewers chasing complexity are losing the people who just want something cold, crisp and repeatable” every brewery that makes North Coast Hazy Vanilla Imperial Mouthfighter also makes a nice lager that doesn’t sell because every other brewery also makes that lager

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 23m

Kid: I want the Vong
Mom: We have Vong at home
Vong at home:

Grysk

The Grysks were a warlike sentient species that hailed from a planet in the Unknown Regions. Known to be half of myth, the Grysks were a nomadic warrior society that ruled an empire known as the Grysk...

starwars.fandom.com

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 33m

I’m referring more to the fact that Egypt has historically blocked both goods and free travel through the checkpoints they control, with the rationale being previous terrorist activity against Egypt in the Sinai and when they controlled Gaza

Lots of typos in my first attempt here

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 36m

I’m questioning more whether they even have the capability to do what they want to clearly do in terms of making it an effective propaganda engine

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 39m

Can’t find much on the digital numbers, but as of June the print numbers cratered to below 100k subscribers

www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 42m

I think the counter argument to “Ellison and Weiss will turn CBS News into an unstoppable propaganda machine” is Bezos’s WaPo which lost basically all the talent and also is in a subscription death spiral

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 52m

I mean, take it up with Manchin and Sinema, because there were no Senate GOP votes for this.

Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 1h

Indeed so. The only major effort was to repair the Electoral Count Act. Important - but reforms to the National Emergencies Act, the Civil Service Reform Act (to bar Schedule F), the Insurrection Act, etc., should not have been out of reach.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2h

Congressional Dems and the Biden admin should have put more effort into passing post-Trump reforms. We need more aggressive reform than what was on offer then, but it could really have helped

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Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 1h

You do not, in fact, have to hand it to Donald Trump.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 52m

Going to write to Governor Healy and petition for her to designate today Indigenous Peoples Day/Magliozzi Day

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 6h

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Anita @anitam86.bsky.social · 59m

So Biden got a ceasefire in December, then Trump came and upped the weapons transit and allowed weapons that had been banned by Biden, 10 months of the same horrors you denounced plus Trump saying he wanted to make a resort in Gaza (and other grotesque statements), but sure…give it to Trump.

David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 5h

Genuinely don’t think our political discourse is capable of talking about how Donald Trump—*Donald Trump*—just halted an ongoing genocide.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 5h

I have strong doubts that the 'ceasefire' will hold and lead to an actual peace deal, but it seems like, maybe, somehow, Trump kinda learned a lesson here...?

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 59m

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 1h

Name a more classic combo than california and truly idiotic landuse propositions

Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 1h

Reminder that California golf courses have a special massive property tax benefit over and above Prop 13. www.evolve-ca.org/news/hole-in...

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ranthacc.bsky.social @ranthacc.bsky.social · 1h

Pizza was invented in Naples, developed deep cultural roots in America, and then was pushed into the rest of Italy largely by American cultural pressure. Food is like that! It's a deeply important part of culture, but it doesn't support these ethnic essentialist narratives.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Nope! They were talking about me

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Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 3d

Bibi rejected almost this exact deal a year ago cause he wanted Trump. If you think that’s Biden’s fault you probably believed Tara Reade too.

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 1h

It's funny because people who give off the most "woke" vibes will also have a take like "all Arab nations love Palestinians because they are also mostly Muslim" like that isn't the most fucked up racist wrong shit you've ever heard

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

And I’m counting Hamas on that list as not caring

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Seriously, if you look at what governments were actually doing anything to take care of the Palestinians in Gaza, I think the answer is a null set

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

I like how they found one of my old posts that pointed out the Gaza blockade, although mostly due to Israel, was also due to Egypt thinking Palestinians are all terrorists

Pointing out how both Israel and the surrounding Arab countries didn’t care about Palestinians makes you a Zionist

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

I like how they found one of my old posts that pointed out the Gaza blockade, although mostly due to Israel, was also due to Egypt thinking Palestinians are all terrorists

Pointing out how both Israel and the surrounding Arab countries didn’t care about Palestinians makes you a Zionist

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Oh fuck off

transpearlkrabs.bsky.... @transp... • now
If you search through this guy's posts, you'll find endless critiques of the left and defenses of liberals in service of Israel....
But he totally isn't a Zionist y'all!

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

www.theguardian.com/world/2006/a...

Lost document reveals Columbus as tyrant of the Caribbean

Christopher Columbus, the man credited with discovering the Americas, was a greedy and vindictive tyrant who saved some of his most violent punishments for his own followers, according to a document u...

www.theguardian.com

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah the nice thing about Columbus is he neatly sidesteps debates about historical relativism by just being bad relative to every time. Superbad, but in the analytic philosophy way not the cool way.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22h

“The Israeli govt has committed several war crimes over the past two years and also at the same a non-trivial portion of criticism of “Israel” is also just antisemitism” is just an extremely bad discursive problem to have, and I don’t see any way that it doesn’t get worse. Pretty bad!

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22h

I sit down in my BlueSky captain's chair and furrow my brow authoritatively.

"Damage report, Mister Scott."

"Ma'am, the Nazi gumbo meme has breached containment and..."

"I've heard enough. Load the torpedoes, set phasers to kill, and burn the planet. No survivors."

"Aye, captain."

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Funny they’re suggesting the lockout isn’t already a fait accompli

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